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Can a pharmacy sell your records along with its business without your consent?

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Yes. The pharmacy isn't esentially selling your records, but in order for the pharmacy that is acquiring the business to be able to provide you with services, they would have to have your records. Some people get upset when pharmacies go out of business and transfer files, but it has to be done because the law requires that files such as hard copies of prescriptions be kept for a certain number of years, so the acquiring pharmacy would be legally obligated to keep those records. You are not obligated to use the acquiring pharmacy, however. You are still free to get your prescriptions filled at a pharmacy of your choosing.

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